The "Web of Things" (WoT) is a vision of a World Wide Web that reaches
into the physical world by providing a seamless integration of digitally
augmented everyday objects. In this paper, we present the AutoWoT project, a
toolkit that facilitates the rapid integration of smart devices into the Web.
It thereby lowers the entry barrier for users to expose data and services
provided by their smart things. AutoWoT offers a generic way of modeling Web
resources and automatically builds web server components which expose the
functionality of such digitally augmented devices. By abstracting the specific
implementation of Web protocols, the toolkit enables prototype developers to
focus on their use-case. In this paper we show how AutoWoT can be used to
considerably facilitate the process of populating the Web of Things and
illustrate the benefits with a concrete prototype application, a presence
awareness tool that combines multiple Web-enabled real-world devices and
services within a physical mashup.